My name is Kenneth Fisher and I am Senior DBA for a large (multi-national) insurance company. I have been working with databases for over 20 years starting with Clarion and Foxpro. I’ve been working with SQL Server for 12 years but have only really started “studying” the subject for the last 3. I don’t have any real "specialities" but I enjoy trouble shooting and teaching. Thus far I’ve earned by MCITP Database Administrator 2008, MCTS Database Administrator 2005, and MCTS Database Developer 2008. I’m currently studying for my MCITP Database Developer 2008 and should start in on the 2012 exams next year. My blog is at www.sqlstudies.com.

Archives: August 2017

I’d been trying to think of a fun post to write and an homage to Jeff Foxworth’s You might be a redneck series seemed like a good idea. To that end, I create a hashtag #YouMightBeADBA and wrote my post on twitter :). Of course, it turns out that the… Read more

Of all of the annoying parts of SSIS, the major version sensitivity has to be the most annoying. Let’s say you create a package in SSDT 2012. You later open that same package with SSDT 16 without thinking about it. SSDT automatically upgrades your to package version 8 (SQL 2014… Read more

I’m working on a project right now and it’s going to require me not only to refresh my SSIS skills a bit but learn a few things that are only available with the latest tools. So everyone ready for a few SSIS posts? Good. Me too!

Well, that’s something to be proud of. This is my 500th post on this blog. Not including a handful of articles and posts on other people’s blogs. I have to admit, when I started (almost exactly 5 years ago) I don’t think I expected to have reached this point. In… Read more

It’s that time again. T-SQL Tuesday. The monthly blog party started by Adam Machanic (b/t) seven and a half years ago!! We have a host, who picks a topic (on the first Tuesday of the month) and then we all write about that topic over the… Read more